Kim Song-cheol took his seat in the living room.
Mana had gathered sufficiently.
The time had come to create the 3rd Circle.
The effect of the new training method was incredible.
The speed at which Mana accumulated was ridiculously fast.
The second Circle, which he hadn’t even been able to fill halfway, was completely filled in just one week.
It was truly a startling speed.
Kim Song-cheol closed his eyes and concentrated on the Circles.
Two Circles expanded, revealing a brilliant form.
The diameter was over 15 meters.
The thickness of each reached 1 meter.
They were truly massive Circles.
Thin particles of Mana were flowing out of the majestically rotating second Circle.
It looked as if the Mana filling the Circle was overflowing.
Kim Song-cheol added new Mana to the overflowing Mana to create a small point.
Outside the orbit where the two Circles rotated.
A point was marked at a certain spot.
And that point began to run along a third orbit.
As the point moved, a twinkling line followed behind.
The point ran slowly, but incessantly.
It moved steadily, albeit a bit slowly, along the large orbit.
And the twinkling line indicated the point’s path of movement.
The point and the line were drawing a perfect circle.
180 degrees,
270 degrees.
Finally, 360 degrees.
The point returned to where it had originally started.
The beginning and the end met, and the line became a circle.
The 3rd Circle had been created.
Oong…..
The Circle trembled slightly once.
Then it began to rotate slowly.
Compared to the other Circles, it was thin as a thread, but it exerted a clear presence.
Even if it was weak now, it would soon grow even thicker than the other Circles.
“Whew…”
With this, Kim Song-cheol officially became a 3rd Circle Mage.
Three Circles were proof of it.
Kim Song-cheol finished the Circles into his body and opened his eyes.
Around his heart, he felt a fuller energy than usual.
‘How nice is it to create a Circle leisurely like this?’
He remembered creating the 2nd Circle inside a Dungeon.
The feeling of the Circle, which he had forced together in a desperate situation, vibrating was still vivid.
It was a feeling he never wanted to experience again.
After creating the Circle, Kim Song-cheol immediately got up and prepared to go out.
There were few classes, and he wasn’t entering a Dungeon.
He had plenty of time.
Kim Song-cheol took the transportation provided by the Training Academy and headed to The Center.
The West Wing of The Center, which had started as a ‘Scan & Translation Room’, had become a Magic research lab.
Visiting this laboratory did not require an exit permit.
This was because it was a place that wouldn’t even exist if it weren’t for Kim Song-cheol in the first place.
The car carrying Kim Song-cheol into The Center stopped in front of the West Wing.
“Thank you.”
Kim Song-cheol bowed politely and got out of the car.
He went straight into the West Wing and stood in front of laboratory Room 203.
The door was halfway open, so the inside was visible.
Inside the lab, a middle-aged researcher was scribbling something while several Magic Books were spread out.
Knock knock.
Kim Song-cheol knocked while sticking his face through the gap in the door.
Only then did the researcher look up.
“Oh, you’ve arrived?”
He did not hide his delighted expression. Kim Song-cheol’s visits were always welcome.
“I’m sorry to bother you while you’re busy. I’m just here to pick up the Magic Book I requested last time. Did the inspection finish?”
“Ah, yes. Of course. It was your request, after all, haha.”
This was another benefit provided to Kim Song-cheol: the right to access Magic Books.
Not a single Magic Book here had been distributed yet.
Even though the translation was completed by AI, the inspection was not finished.
Of course, they would be distributed to Hunters soon, but it would take much longer for the Training Academy.
This was because the curriculum also had to be negotiated.
Kim Myung-joo estimated this time to be at least 3 to 6 months.
“Here it is.”
The researcher took out a bound book from a drawer and handed it to Kim Song-cheol.
“Ah, thank you.”
“Since you’re here, why don’t you have a meal? It’s almost lunchtime.”
“Yes. I’ll be nearby. Please call me.”
“Yes, yes.”
Kim Song-cheol gave a polite nod with a smile and left the research lab.
If he stayed inside the lab, he would have to receive greetings and people would keep talking to him, so he wouldn’t be able to read the Magic Book.
Instead, he went and sat on a bench in a corner of The Center.
‘So this is what Heal is?’
The Magic Kim Song-cheol received was ‘Heal’.
It was a 3rd Circle Magic, and it was the reason Kim Song-cheol came here as soon as he became 3rd Circle.
In fact, Heal Magic occupied a position slightly lower than a white elephant.
The Points required to purchase the Magic were expensive, and it lacked the recovery power to resolve emergency situations.
If it couldn’t resolve emergency situations, was there a need to invest Points?
Even for a Magic that was more difficult than other 3rd Circle Magics?
In the Republic of Korea, it was judged to be unnecessary.
But to put it another way, it was for non-emergency situations.
In other words, things like a skinned knee or a scratch from a tree.
Or ankle sprains, muscle pain, even headaches and menstrual cramps.
‘Heal’, which increased human healing power to recover, was like a household medicine that could be applied to all situations.
Kim Song-cheol quickly began to read the Heal Magic Book.
‘Oh!’
From the beginning, it was full of interesting content.
A Magic with a completely new mechanism like ‘Heal’ was the kind that significantly stimulated Kim Song-cheol’s intellectual curiosity.
***
During the time he wasn’t entering Dungeons, Kim Song-cheol literally lived buried in Magic.
Except for a couple of Magics specially received from the lab, he researched 3rd Circle Magics.
Still, for now, existing Magics took priority over new ones.
The fact that they were bought with Points meant they were that effective.
Starting from 3rd Circle Magic, wide-area attack Magics appeared.
The most universally used one was Fireball.
Unlike the 2nd Circle Flame Ball, which just scattered flames around, Fireball had explosive power.
The flames bursting around with explosive power could be called the flower of 3rd Circle Magic.
However, Kim Song-cheol liked ‘Thunder Strike’, which dropped lightning from the sky, more than Fireball.
The main reason was attack power.
The attack power of Thunder Strike, which could almost be called an anti-personnel Magic, was higher than Fireball, which attacked a wide range.
The majority of Mages preferred Fireball.
This was because Thunder Strike was difficult.
Accurately dropping a bolt of lightning on a desired location was a difficult task.
Of course, that did not apply to Kim Song-cheol.
Besides that, he mastered various Magics such as Mana Blade, which created and swung a large sword; Ice Fog, which created a low-temperature mist; and Air Hammer, which increased power by narrowing the range of the 2nd Circle Air Blast.
Except for eating and sleeping, his time was mostly filled with Magic.
He wasn’t forcing himself to train.
If someone had ordered him to do it, he wouldn’t have been able to.
Kim Song-cheol was enjoying Magic training.
It was because he liked the fact that it was immediately implemented into reality.
Usually, academics often end as just academics.
Acquiring knowledge in your head meant you had learned the subject.
But Magic was different.
It actually fired flames, created wind, healed wounds, and transmitted thoughts.
Could there be a more practical academic field than this?
He could live even if told to live his whole life only studying Magic.
However, the world did not permit it.
[The team has been decided.]
A spot for Kim Song-cheol opened up.
It was three weeks after the farewell party for Team 25A had ended.
[Let’s start with greetings first, haha.]
Kim Song-cheol felt a strange sense of regret as he hung up the phone with Kim Myung-joo.
He closed the Magic Book he was reading, packed up his things, and headed to the gym.
When he entered the empty gym, three Trainees were already out.
They were all familiar faces, and he knew all their names.
It was because they had taken the anti-personnel combat class together.
“Big Brother! You’ve arrived!”
Kang Hye-seong bowed his waist politely with a disciplined movement.
The other guys followed that greeting.
“You’ve arrived!”
The voices of the dark-clothed guys echoed throughout the gym.
‘Where did it go wrong?’
Kim Song-cheol accepted the greeting while hiding a strange, complicated feeling.
“Uh, yeah. I’m here.”
“We’re glad you’re here!”
“With only Big Brother, we’re invincible!”
“Invincible! Invincible!”
Was the problem his magic skill, which beat down all the Swordsmen with just the level of the 2nd Circle?
Since Kim Song-cheol won every match, the Trainees taking classes with him called him Big Brother and used formal speech.
Kang Hye-seong was the one who started it first, and before he knew it, all the Trainees were doing it.
The three people here were the same.
If there were even one female Trainee, it might be different, but all three were men, so they got along very well and were very playful.
Kim Song-cheol couldn’t understand it, but he decided to think of it as a generation gap for now.
“I heard it’s Team 24C.”
As Kim Song-cheol spoke, the other guys nodded.
“Yes, that’s right.”
If it’s Team 24C, it’s a middle-tier team among the ’24’ groups.
The reason for putting him in a middle-tier team implied that they wouldn’t change his team until Kim Song-cheol graduated.
Anyway, if it’s Kim Song-cheol, he will graduate before long.
It wasn’t good for the team to change several times in the meantime.
“Who was the leader?”
“It’s not important who it was.”
“That’s right. From now on, our leader is Big Brother.”
“No, you can’t decide the leader in such a joking way.”
“We’re not joking, though?”
Swordsman Lee Yong-chan spoke with a serious face.
Then the other Swordsman, Park Ha-su, nodded.
“Don’t you remember all of us falling before Big Brother?”
“It’s natural for the strongest person to become the leader. That’s how wolves are.”
Kang Hye-seong said.
“We’re humans, Hye-seong.”
“Then I’ll be a human.”
“…”
Kim Song-cheol shook his head as he looked at Kang Hye-seong, who bowed his head.
But there was some truth in their words.
Kim Song-cheol was the strongest, and he was the oldest.
If someone else was the leader, it would look like Kim Song-cheol was passing it off.
“Is there anyone who wants to be the leader?”
When Kim Song-cheol asked, the rest of the team members shook their heads as if they had made a promise.
“No!”
“…Then I guess I have to do it.”
“That’s an excellent choice, Big Brother.”
“You don’t need to answer every single word like that.”
“I’ll keep that in mind!”
“…I’m the 1st Mage. Was Hye-seong the 2nd Mage and Yong-chan the 1st?”
“Yes, I’m the 1st, Big Brother.”
“I’m the 2nd, Big Brother.”
“Then let’s try a formation. Boundary Formation A.”
“Boundary A!”
“Boundary A!”
No sooner had Kim Song-cheol finished speaking than Lee Yong-chan and Park Ha-su repeated the command and moved as if sliding.
Considerably fast movements.
As expected, the movement of one rank higher was different.
Mage Kang Hye-seong positioned himself in front of Kim Song-cheol a step later, completing the perfect Boundary Formation.
Every team had different intervals and speeds even for the same formation, so it was necessary to check in advance.
Since he took the lead, he needed to know how the team members would move when he gave an order.
“Strike Formation C.”
Again, Kim Song-cheol’s order dropped.
“Strike C!”
“Strike C!”
The Swordsmen quickly changed positions and even mimicked slashing at Monsters that weren’t there.
‘…They are quick.’
After seeing them move a few times, he could roughly predict how the Swordsmen would fight.
They had also fought several times in anti-personnel combat training.
Surprisingly, Lee Yong-chan was a delicate Swordsman. There was a reason he took the role of the 1st Swordsman for boundaries and scouting.
Park Ha-su didn’t have the same force as Ser Gang-jin, but his balance was good.
Kang Hye-seong goes without saying.
He was a guy who did well.
Now that the team’s skill had been upgraded, even in the same E-Rank Dungeon, Dungeons of higher difficulty would appear.
If you had to distinguish it, it could be seen as going from E-rank minus difficulty to E-rank plus difficulty.
Now, Kim Song-cheol would enter that Dungeon with these playful guys.
“Good, everyone is doing well. I look forward to working with you.”
“We look forward to working with you, Big Brother!”
Kim Song-cheol chuckled and tapped the shoulder of Kang Hye-seong, who was closest to him.
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